1/32 Do-335 two seater (from HKM)

[petrov27]

B-6 been out for some time - I got mine off eBay in July....

[Dave Williams]

17 minutes ago, petrov27 said:

B-6 been out for some time - I got mine off eBay in July....

 

My eBay search-fu must be bad.  I’ve searched a couple of times since July and never found one for sale, and even now none show up.  Found a number of the B-2 kits though.

[petrov27]

Huh yeah that is odd.... I know I was surprised to see the listing and at what seemed like a reasonable price even with shipping from Korea plus I think it was on one of those days where eBay had a discount offer running....

 

Shows in stock at Hobbylink Japan but the shipping would be painful there unless you are doing their private warehouse option and shipping many items together...

[LSP_Ray]

Kitlinx is a direct importer of HK stuff so they should be to get anything they have. They are expecting the Liberator around mid-November. Not long!

[Jack]

I just hope HK releases the A12 trainer without the abundance of clear plastic, like Zoukei-mura did.

Bought the latter and on opening the box,  mostly (actually all) main parts, like fuselage and wing surfaces presented themselves in clear plastic, and though i built the phantom mustang years ago as an interesting "inside-look" of the aircraft, this ZM release is a bit disappointing IMHO just because of these "see-thru" parts.

Besides that,  the clear plastic is a bit too brittle for my taste.

So, i'm looking forward to the HK kit........

[JamesHatch]

6 minutes ago, Jack said:

 

So, i'm looking forward to the HK kit........

 

....so am I  

 

[DeanKB]

I was trying to work out why there is such a market for a big, ugly, 1/32 WWII aeroplane that never entered service, lacked historical significance, and was produced in only 30 odd examples,  with severely limited camo options?

 

Then I remembered that it had a little swastika on its tail.

[alaninaustria]

I like the bird because it’s so unique - represents an aeronautical plot along the linear development of military aircraft. Simple as that...

Cheers

Alan

[JamesHatch]

16 hours ago, DeanKB said:

 

Then I remembered that it had a little swastika on its tail.

 

That's it! We must be closet Nazis. 

[DeanKB]

1 hour ago, JamesHatch said:

 

That's it! We must be closet Nazis. 

The WW2 era Luftwaffe - and WWI era Die Fliegertruppe - certainly seems to grab people's attention, me included.

 

I normally put it down to cool looking airframes, allied to a very large choice of pretty, trendy camouflage finishes available.

 

The Do 335 does have uniqueness going for it, and I suppose the Luft46 enthusiasts can go to town on it. 

 

And, of course, the closet Nazi's. They must keep very, very well closeted, because I've never met one, nor even heard about one.

 

I need to get out more.

 

I'll Google "Welsh, large scale, Nazi model aeroplane club", see where that takes me.

[cbk57]

There is a whole world of fantasy 1946 folks.  Great for kit manufacturers because you can make up German designs that never existed and no one can prove you wrong.  I like German Aircraft but regardless of Allied or German, I have a hard time getting into side tracks like this one.  I have no interest in the Bearcat either.  It just was kind of a dead end.  Really most planes without a jet engine by 1945 were a developmental dead end.  

 

I bought a 1/48 Tamiya one of these one time, that was an amazing kit but lost interest in it.  I got it 3/4 finished and don;t even know what happened to it now.  I am amazed that two companies have issued high quality kits of this plane.  

 

As far as Luft 46 goes, the allies were not going to stop developing planes either.  My theory is that if German fans get to do fantasy planes, I could do a Mig 15 as U.S. Army Aircore 1946, based upon the idea that the allies managed to steal the wing design for the ME-262 and quickly get an antidote into production working with the British for the superior Rols Royce jet engine, the Russians for a superior airframe design and the Americans to produce and ship.  The result was that the allies swept the Germans from the sky, Chuck Yeager shot down  31 ME-262’s becaming American’s highest scoring ace, in Glamerous Glennis V.   

 

Allies enter Berlin in mid 1946 about which time Adolf Eats a Bullit and the Cold War starts shortly thereafter.  

Edited October 22, 2018 by cbk57

[Out2gtcha]

10 minutes ago, cbk57 said:

There is a whole world of fantasy 1946 folks.    

 

 

Ive never actually done a what-if before.........................but thought the mix of this:

 

 

 

with this scheme:

 

 

 

Plus a Pic-As:

 

 

 

Could = some fun! 

 

[spacewolf]

17 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said:

 

 

Ive never actually done a what-if before.........................but thought the mix of this:

 

 

 

with this scheme:

 

 

 

Plus a Pic-As:

 

 

 

Could = some fun! 

 

 

O...M...G... !!! Do it !!

[cbk57]

In my Fantasy 46 world Yeager shot down so many of those D0-335 planes the air force would not count them anymore or give him creadit.  In fact as soon as the pilots knew Yeager was in the air in his MiG 15(the Army Air core might have called it something else) the German pilots would simply eject in many cases.

 

Unfortunately for the Germans in 1946 90% of the experience pilots were dead at this point and the average pilot flying the D0-335 is 14 with about 1 hour of instruction time.  Many of the femal pilots were a bit older but none the less only had a few hours of flight training.  The problem was though that when the pulled women of the AAA gun sights to fly the bombers did not have to worry about the Anti aircraft batteries.  

Edited October 22, 2018 by cbk57

[DeanKB]

58 minutes ago, cbk57 said:

There is a whole world of fantasy 1946 folks.  Great for kit manufacturers because you can make up German designs that never existed and no one can prove you wrong.  I like German Aircraft but regardless of Allied or German, I have a hard time getting into side tracks like this one.  I have no interest in the Bearcat either.  It just was kind of a dead end.  Really most planes without a jet engine by 1945 were a developmental dead end.  

 

I bought a 1/48 Tamiya one of these one time, that was an amazing kit but lost interest in it.  I got it 3/4 finished and don;t even know what happened to it now.  I am amazed that two companies have issued high quality kits of this plane.  

 

As far as Luft 46 goes, the allies were not going to stop developing planes either.  My theory is that if German fans get to do fantasy planes, I could do a Mig 15 as U.S. Army Aircore 1946, based upon the idea that the allies managed to steal the wing design for the ME-262 and quickly get an antidote into production working with the British for the superior Rols Royce jet engine, the Russians for a superior airframe design and the Americans to produce and ship.  The result was that the allies swept the Germans from the sky, Chuck Yeager shot down  31 ME-262’s becaming American’s highest scoring ace, in Glamerous Glennis V.   

 

Allies enter Berlin in mid 1946 about which time Adolf Eats a Bullit and the Cold War starts shortly thereafter.  

I tend to agree.

 

At the end of 1942, the US had 4 aircraft carriers.

 

At the end of WWII, just 3 years later, the US Navy had 28 fleet carriers and an astounding 74 escort carriers - all operational. The US also built and delivered to the Royal Navy 34 escort carriers, as well as producing 300,000 aircraft, over 100,000 tanks and a breathtaking truck production in excess of 2 million!! 

 

That kind of industrial capacity, well protected by the Pacific & Atlantic, meant that Germany & the Axis was doomed, it was just a matter of time, especially when Soviet industry also cranked up production of tanks & aircraft.